SEO Poisoning Attack Linked to 144,000 Phishing Packages - Security Boulevard

In a recent incident involving the NuGet, PyPI, and NPM packages, threat actors uploaded approximately 144,000 malicious packages to these open-source package repositories, containing links to phishing and scam websites. These packages contain links to phishing and scam websites. These packages were part of a BlackHat SEO / Search Engine Poisoning campaign, intended to manipulate search engine results and promote the ranking of the threat actors' scam pages by creating backlinks from trusted websites.

In this blog post, we will explore the details of this threat, analyze intent and provide guidance on how to protect your organization from similar attacks.

What is SEO Poisoning?

Search engine poisoning (also known as "malicious search results") is a technique used to inject spammy or malicious content into the search results of a search engine. One way this can be done is by creating backlinks from legitimate websites to malicious websites.

Backlinks are links from one website to another website. When a website has a lot of backlinks from other reputable websites, it can help improve its ranking in search engines. This is because search engines view backlinks as a sign of the website's popularity and relevance.

If a malicious actor creates backlinks from legitimate websites to malicious websites, it can trick search engines into thinking that the malicious website is more relevant or popular than it really is. This can cause the malicious website to rank higher in the...

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